Einstein, His Life and Times

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EINSTEIN is a great physicist. His development of the theory of relativity, and his theory of the photoelectric effect, both dating originally from 1905, have had profound influence on the progress of physics and rank him among the half-dozen leading physicists of the century.

Since he is a, greut scientist, Einstein s life is naturally interesting: his German origin, experiences in Switzerland as a young man at the time of his greatest productivity, long residence in Berlin, widespread travels, final departuit; from Germany as a refugee, and now his work at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. But because he has been the subject of universal curiosity, his work has sometimes been distorted into unjustified application to philosophy, religion, and politics. Throughout, he has remained a modest and shy man, deprecating attempts to apply his work outside its proper sphere. In the words of Mr.Frank: He has remained a bohemian, with a humorous, even seemingly skeptical approach to facts of human life. ... He has remained an individualist who prefers to he unencumbered by social relations, and at the same time a lighter for social equality and human fraternity. He has remained a believer in the possibility ot expressing the laws of the universe in simple, even though ingenious mathematical formulae, but at the same time doubting all ready-made formulae that claim to be the correct solution tor human behavior in private and political life.

The aut hor of this biography, a dist iugirished physicist ami philosopher—like Einstein a refugee in this country — has ably presented both the personal and the public aspects of Einstein’s career, though some of the scientific and philosophical discussion may be hard going for the general reader,

JOHN C. SLATER